VIII.

Full manners-like he tender'd the dram;

Oh it came of a dainty cask!

But, whenever it came to his turn to pull,

"Your leave, good sir, I must ask;

But I always wipe the brim with my sleeve,

When a hangman sups at my flask!"

IX.

And then he laugh'd so loudly and long,

The churl was quite out of breath;